Monday, January 22, 2007

The discovery of the x-ray

To imagine the world before 1895, a world with very few of the technologies that we considered essential today: the computer, airplane, televisions and considers this: No machines of x-ray.
Before the machines of the ray of x were invented, the broken bones, the tumors and the location of bullets all were diagnosed by the physical examen and conjectures of a doctor the best one.
The patients paid the price of these approaches. Then the 8 of November of 1895, a German Roentgen of professor Wilhelm Conrado of the physics made a discovery remarkable.
It took to a similar tube the fluorescent light bulbs, cleared all the air and he filled it of a special gas. When it passed a high electrical voltage with him, the tube emitted a fluorescent brilliance.
The Roentgen later covered the tube with the heavy black paper and the electricity passed again with him and noticed them that a covered screen barium through laboratory began to shine intensely.

It made quickly that its tube emitted a "invisible light" or the ray, and this ray could happen through heavy paper that covered the tube. He made more experiments quickly and he discovered them that these new rays could happen through most of the substances and that the shades would throw of solid objects in pieces of the film.
He named the new x-ray of the ray, because in mathematics "X" he is used to indicated the unknown amount. And within month a Roentgen gave its report to the society Physical-Medical de Wurzburg and the friends of the physicist through Europe.

Before the January of 1896 the world was taken hold by "odd habit of the x-ray," and the Roentgen was proclaimed the discoverer of a medical miracle. Within a year, the x-rays were used in diagnosis and therapy and were an established part of medicine. The Roentgen did not look for patents in its discovery of x-rays, but it was the container of the first Nobel prize in the physics in 1901.

We today took the x-rays and systems more falsified all from the granted projection of image for. Some of the pioneers in the dead work field with the x-rays that did not know were harmful. But its sacrifice does about 111 years created a technology that is vital to our health today.

9 comments:

Fin said...

Few electronic technologies have lasted so long; I wonder if the X-ray will still be the reigning tech in 10 years, and still around in 20...

Guillermo Ravagni said...

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Casey said...

Very interesting piece of medical history.

Tim said...

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alura said...

I think the health industry has taken medicines to the far limit. This world is quite discusting. People need to die, there is too much of us as it is.
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